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Teacher sells marijuana to his students

Crazy story, even for Russia.

At the beginning of March a teacher from the Russian city of Penza was taken into custody for selling marijuana to his students at the technical college.

He was growing cannabis at his dacha and then was selling it to his students. At first he persuaded two of his students to try marijuana for free. Teenagers liked it. When some time later the teenagers asked him to give them some more the teacher demanded payment.

“The young people, as it often happens, tried drugs for the first time for free, but later the teacher started to sell them cannabis for 300 rubles ($10) per box and the students began to resell it to their friends” – says Elena Samorukova, Penza region police official.

One of the students was arrested by police and he told them everything about their drug cooperation. Now the teacher can be sentenced to 8 years in prison.